American Idol: "Haley Scarnato Is Sent Home" Review

Perfection, thy name is IGN TV's Performance Rankings.

We are quite proud of ourselves here today, because though we've often complained that America hasn't got past weeks right in regards to how they were voting (to be fair though, not new, since there have been past seasons where people went way before they were supposed to), we couldn't agree more this week. Why? Only because we nailed the show perfectly.

Before we get to who was in the bottom three and who went home, the show was an hour long and with it came a bunch of entertainment - a.k.a. filler. We got to see Akon perform, who sounded worse at times than some of the contestants. We also got to see J-Lo perform, who we were surprised to see not lip-synching to her song (only because we are used to that with pop princesses). Though we could have cared less about the performances, there were two pretty funny moments, including one where Ryan Seacrest played the roving reporter and asked people on the street about the performance show and who they liked and didn't like. There was also a cute moment where Simon went to Africa to show the kids the upcoming American Idol charity event would help and what your money would be going to, and it was capped off by one cute little girl who did a chalk picture of Simon with boobs, who of course had to judge her picture and say he didn't like her anymore; it was nice to see Simon turn red and laughing at seeing the footage - it humanized the usually mean-perceived judge.

J-Lo performs

As for who the bottom three of the week:

Phil Stacey was the first revealed of the bottom three tonight, and we said of his performance this week "he had some pretty good moments, but he also had some really bad too as his voice completely cracked and broke at the beginning of some of the longer and higher notes of the song. Also, we found it weird the lyrics about a guitar played by Carlos Santana were left in, when the man wasn't ever there to play the guitar - a minor nag, but it bugged us to no end." We weren't surprised to see Phil here, mainly because we ranked him number seven in our rankings, but you kind of have to put him in the bottom three after his voice broke at least three times that we can remember counting.

Haley Scarnato was the next revealed of the bottom three, and we said of her performance this week "we'd just like to defer to Simon in that the only reason she is around is because the horny teenagers out there like calling for the pretty girl who shows off her long legs. Seriously, it's the truth, because since she became known for looking pretty after showing her legs off a few weeks ago, every performance since then has featured short skirts or short shorts. Though visually she is up to snuff, vocally she isn't, because the song was a complete disaster, as we tune in to watch people sing - not talk rap, which is almost half the song." We ranked Haley dead last on our performance ratings this week, and with good cause too. It was funny to hear Ryan ask Haley about Simon's comments, which she danced around. Please, everyone knows you played up the legs after you got the attention, quit acting like you weren't.

Chris Richardson was the final of the bottom three revealed, and we said of his performance this week "his voice was completely wavy, as no note he held ever seemed to stay solid and strong, instead fluctuating up and down like crazy. Once again, Chris' best notes are those high ones (like most of the contestants this year) and when the chorus let him go for those and hit them, he did pretty good." We ranked Chris as number six on our list, but we felt he was safe since he wasn't too terrible and deserving to go home, he was just the worst of the other better singers.

Thankfully, Chris didn't go home and was told to sit down, which all led to a final two vote off between Phil and Haley (just like our rankings reflected). We would have honestly been happy to see either of these two go home, but we had our vote on Haley, which was proved right, solidifying that we called this week 100% perfectly. We'll miss the lovely woman, but hey, it's a singing competition, so we won't miss her too much.